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Council News
The Council’s new Just Tech Rapid-Response Grants fund research projects that address the risks, opportunities, and challenges posed by public health surveillance stemming from the Covid-19 pandemic. Learn more and apply
The SSRC is proud to announce that Professor James C. Scott is the recipient of the 2020 Albert O. Hirschman Prize, the Council’s highest honor
A statement from SSRC president Alondra Nelson: “On Mourning, Moving Forward, and a Social Science of Solutions”
The SSRC’s Measure of America program has released its annual report on youth disconnection, “A Decade Undone: Youth Disconnection in the Age of Coronavirus.” Read the full 2020 report
SSRC president Alondra Nelson, the acclaimed scholar and former Columbia University Dean, who has led the SSRC since 2017, will be stepping down in the early fall of 2021. A search for her successor is now underway.
New Research Development Workshop: News Quality in the Platform Era from the Council’s Media & Democracy program, in collaboration with the NewsQ Initiative. The workshop, chaired by Philip M. Napoli (Duke University) and Regina Lawrence (University of Oregon), is scheduled for November 12-13, 2020. Proposals are due June 15